Author Topic: BBEANS5 Brackets and Videos (Read 88118 times)

RedSawn · « **Reply #120 on:** April 23, 2009, 04:59:11 AM »

Quote from: Starcore;35074

The new T-800 has DSA armor, 80 KG of overlapping ramplates and much more concentrated attack power.

Are you Sarah Conner? Lets terminate you anyways...

Starcore

Hah, sounds good. Wonder what T800 vs. Absolute Chaos would be.

They'd have to meet in the semi-finals though, a long time after AC rips up my team... If I win against Trojan, that is.

Sage · « **Reply #121 on:** April 23, 2009, 06:36:12 AM »

AC vs. T-800 will be intense.

RedSawn · « **Reply #122 on:** April 24, 2009, 09:40:40 AM »

Quote from: Sage;35086

AC vs. T-800 will be intense.

Close, yes. Exciting? ... Eh, I think a close battle between different kinds of bots would be better.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #123 on:** April 25, 2009, 02:46:15 PM »

The first quarter of round 1 is up!

(I'm uploading the first round in smaller chunks so you don't have to wait a whole month or something before I post videos.)

I apologize for the delay; it's been a very busy past few weeks for me as I rushed to make nests for solitary bees which start flying early in the year (it's part of my MS project.)

And now I suppose I have to address this Bumble Bee controversy, and hopefully have the last word on it.

Bumble Bee is not a bumble ball. It is a crawler. I have said on several occasions that crawlers are legal as long as they meet all the other rules, but perhaps I should clarify that in the rules.

The interesting thing about BB is that it's not just a crawler, but a sit and spinner crawler. While it will spend most of its time in the arena waiting for the other bot to come and hit it, it IS capable of going after the other bot itself. In fact, the AI I'm using for it has a feature where if 15 seconds pass without any damage done, the AI (Bumble Bee) will stop spinning and chase down the opponent.

I already told Sage that Bumble Bee was OK to enter when he first said he was considering it, and I won't go back on that decision now. Bumble Bee is staying in the tourney, for better or worse.

As for concerns about crawlers dominating the brackets in future BBEANS, I'm not worried about it. Crawlers are really only effective as HW's (there are a few MW's but it's a lot harder to do). Also, it's not hard to flip them over the wall in the BBEANS arena if you have a fast bot. If there aren't very many fast bots capable of doing that in BBEANS5, well that's not Sage's fault now is it.

When popups first came onto the RA2 scene, there was a similar backlash against them for much of the same reasons used against Bumble Bee. It was seen as cheap and unfair to get under the other bot and hit their unprotected bottoms. And now look, popups are basically a staple design of RA2, and they're also beatable.

System32 · « **Reply #124 on:** April 25, 2009, 03:00:23 PM »

haha, mark'll be very upset.

Somebody · « **Reply #125 on:** April 25, 2009, 03:25:53 PM »

The videos aren't uploaded...

And if they are, they don't open on the site.

RedSawn · « **Reply #126 on:** April 25, 2009, 03:40:41 PM »

Quote from: Somebody;35326

The videos aren't uploaded...

And if they are, they don't open on the site.

They're there. Just hover over the matchups mentioned and save to disk.

Somebody · « **Reply #127 on:** April 25, 2009, 03:43:14 PM »

I right click and it doesn't say "Save Target As...".

System32 · « **Reply #128 on:** April 25, 2009, 03:52:48 PM »

Firefox?

Anyway, here's the SPOILERS!

surgical strike does well, and gets owned in the last minute, magnum bores, vela bores and grinnin face goes flying in a threesome of irons.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #129 on:** April 25, 2009, 03:55:13 PM »

Quote from: System32;35323

haha, mark'll be very upset.

What on earth for? Did he want to lose?

Quote from: Somebody;35326

The videos aren't uploaded...

And if they are, they don't open on the site.

They all work for me, I just double checked all the links. Is anyone else having problems?

Edit: apparently not.

I'm making more of an effort to reduce file sizes this time around, so saving videos to your hard drive shouldn't be necessary. All videos in BBEANS5 will be about 20 MB or less.

System32 · « **Reply #130 on:** April 25, 2009, 03:57:31 PM »

Click:I misread everything. He'd probably laugh at the rocket flight though.

somestrangeguy · « **Reply #131 on:** April 25, 2009, 04:13:20 PM »

I must say I didnt expect that from SS. Might happend on my case too, but I think I have a good chance at 1 hit killing it, thats what usually has happened with popups without protection, but who knows?

Somebody · « **Reply #132 on:** April 25, 2009, 04:15:26 PM »

Yes I have Firefox. but I just checked it and it works in Internet Explorer. Thanks guys.

infiniteinertia · « **Reply #133 on:** April 25, 2009, 04:26:28 PM »

Starcore · « **Reply #134 on:** April 25, 2009, 04:27:40 PM »

Congrats to SurgicalStrike. Great fighting. I agonized and stewed on razor tips in front to break weapons or late round ramming vs two casters on bottom for pop-up protection. In lots and lots of testing it seemed better to do the razor tips out front.

Congrats again and will see if T-800 can climb his way out of the losers bracket.

Starcore

Somebody · « **Reply #135 on:** April 25, 2009, 04:51:11 PM »

LOL @ popup-ness

R1885 · « **Reply #136 on:** April 25, 2009, 06:39:31 PM »

:o
I won? Wow.

40757 · « **Reply #137 on:** April 25, 2009, 08:31:37 PM »

I'm not really suprised that Vela went OOTA. Anything will get under that bot. I'm not sure that I'll make it past round 2 though against 45-70 Magnum.

...However, I am suprised that Surgical Strike beat T-800 Terminator.

In other news... this is my 100th post :D

Wings · « **Reply #138 on:** April 25, 2009, 08:33:55 PM »

Overall the matches were good but only one truly suprised me (congrats to R1885). I have a bad feeling, unfournately, that the 2nd quarter's matches won't be quite as exciting.

ianh05 · « **Reply #139 on:** April 25, 2009, 09:00:54 PM »

Quote from: Wings;35370

Overall the matches were good but only one truly suprised me (congrats to R1885). I have a bad feeling, unfournately, that the 2nd quarter's matches won't be quite as exciting.

at least my bot will bot on a show :D